Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. Tony Estanguet, the organizer of the Paris Olympics 2024, said of the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Blythe Lawrence is a longtime Olympic sports reporter. Jun 29, 2025, 09:08pm EDT The reinstalled cauldron from the Paris 2024 ...
The Olympic Games supercharge the problems that already exist in a host city. We saw that in Paris—but what will happen in LA? Fireworks illuminate the sky at the end of the closing ceremony of the ...
When I arrived in Paris and saw the mascot for the Summer Olympics was a lump of red, I was baffled. Was it a pastry? A Pokémon creature? But over these two weeks “Phryge” — named after the Phrygian ...
It feels like a lifetime ago, before Léon Marchand had a nation cheering his every stroke at La Défense Arena, before Simone Biles had us out of our seats watching the women’s gymnastics all-around ...
It's Los Angeles' turn for the torch. Mayor Karen Bass accepted the Olympic flag at the Paris closing ceremony Sunday, before handing it off to Tom Cruise, who in a pre-recorded trek via motorcycle, ...
PARIS — After the epic success of the Paris Olympics, the risk for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles is that the inevitable contrast will cast a harsh light on the dysfunction afflicting so many ...